Yes, his character and personality was very fearful and more inspirational but he looked up to Mussolini as the better guy (until he became more powerful, I guess). No matter how bad his beliefs and actions were you cannot deny that he is one of the most iconic and greatest leaders in the past few centuries in terms of what he achieved (more so before the start of WW2).

... and the blue meanie, and cowboy curtis, and jambi the jeanie, robo cop, terminator, captain kirk, and darth vader, lopan, superman, every single power ranger, bill s. preston, and theodore logan, spock, the rock, doc oc., and hulk hogan, all came out of nowhere lightning fast, and they kicked chuck noris in his cowboy ass...